Come gather 'round people  Wherever you roam  And admit that the waters  Around you have grown  And accept it that soon  You'll be drenched to the bone.  If your time to you  Is worth savin'  Then you better start swimmin'  Or you'll sink like a stone  For the times they are a-changin'.    Come writers and critics  Who prophesize with your pen  And keep your eyes wide  The chance won't come again  And don't speak too soon  For the wheel's still in spin  And there's no tellin' who  That it's namin'.  For the loser now  Will be later to win  For the times they are a-changin'.    Come senators, congressmen  Please heed the call  Don't stand in the doorway  Don't block up the hall  For he that gets hurt  Will be he who has stalled  There's a battle outside  And it is ragin'.  It'll soon shake your windows  And rattle your walls  For the times they are a-changin'.    Come mothers and fathers  Throughout the land  And don't criticize  What you can't understand  Your sons and your daughters  Are beyond your command  Your old road is  Rapidly agin'.  Please get out of the new one  If you can't lend your hand  For the times they are a-changin'.    The line it is drawn  The curse it is cast  The slow one now  Will later be fast  As the present now  Will later be past  The order is  Rapidly fadin'.  And the first one now  Will later be last  For the times they are a-changin'.